All Things AI is a for-profit company. The point of the business is to fund the work nonprofits usually do — because raising that money the nonprofit way is hard.
The work we care about is simple to say and expensive to do: put AI skills in the hands of people who will not get them from a company training budget. Students. Veterans. Career-changers. Public servants. Operators at companies too small to hire a chief AI officer.
That is usually a nonprofit's job. Those organizations are good at the work and exhausted by the fundraising. Cycles slip. Programs shrink to whatever the last foundation check will cover. The people who need the training most are the first to be cut.
We did not want the access work to live or die on a development office. So we built a company. Companies and practitioners who can pay for a conference, a workshop, or a sponsorship fund seats and year-round teaching for people who cannot. The business is the engine. Give-back is not a side project we do if the year is good.
What that pays for
In 2026, 807 people came to the conference on a free seat, 173 of them through Ada Lovelace scholarships and access programs with NPower, Code the Dream, Village of Wisdom, Echo, and the universities. For 2027 we have committed at least 500 scholarship and access seats.
How the seats work →All Things AI (Live) is free to join: 5,025 members and over 70 of our own events since April 2023. Lunch-and-learns, Triangle meetups, recorded sessions. No ticket required.
Find a meetup →We do not replace the nonprofits. We put their people in the room and keep the door open between conferences. If your organization serves students, veterans, or career-changers, ask us about seats.
Community partners →All Things AI is not a 501(c)(3). A ticket is not a tax-deductible gift. We say that plainly so nobody has to guess.
What we are is a for-profit positioned to give back because the customers who can pay keep showing up — and because we refuse to run a room that only they can enter. Sponsors underwrite seats. A $149 contribution sends one person. Partners name the people. We keep the teaching free or cheap the rest of the year.
If that model works, North Carolina gets more fluent people than a grant cycle would have produced. That is the give-back. Not a foundation logo. A full room.
